Reframing Transracial Adoption: Adopted Koreans, White Parents, and the Politics of Kinship

Abstract

Acknowledgments Personal / Political Preface (1) Adoption Matters: Beyond Catastrophe and Spectacle (A)The Birth of Sentimental International Adoption (B) Institutionalizing Harry Holt's Mission in Korea (C)Research Questions & Methodology (D) Towards a Critical Race Feminist Approach to Transnational Adoption (E) Overview of chapters (F) Names, Labels and Terms (2) Adoption Facilitators and the Marketing of Family-Building: Expert Systems meet Spurious Customized Family-Building and the Trouble with (B) Promoting Transnational Adoption (B:1) Meeting the Consumer Needs of the Target Market (B:2)Depicting Korea as a Nonpolitical, Cultural Other (B:3)Assuming Race Consciousness in Culture - Consuming Parents (C)A Confusion of Experts (D)The Fault line between Domestic and Transnational Transracial Adoption (E) Conclusion: Towards a Paradigm of Consciousness (3) Navigating Racism: Avoiding and Confronting Difference in Families (A) Phase 1: Choosing the Acceptable Model Minority in pre-adoption decision-making (B) Phase 2: Family Lessons on Racism (B:1) Assumptions of easy assimilation (B:2) Failures of the Ad Hoc, Colorblind Approach (B:3)The Fly on the Wall: Adoptees Witness and Confront Racism (C)Phase 3: Adoption as Point of Departure (C:1) Adoptees' Departures from Whiteness (C:2)This Is How I Taught Her To Be: Parents Observe Departures from Whiteness (D) Conclusion (4 ) Navigating Kinship: Searching for Family Beyond and Within Doctrine of Genealogical Unity Confronting the Loss of Birth and Risk of Adoption Choosing Closed Adoptions and the Familyless Orphan (C)Reconstructing Memories of Korea as Routes to the Meaning of Family (D)Searching for Family Origins and Identities in the Shadow of Gratitude (5) Strategic Interruptions versus Possessive Investment: Transnational Adoption in the Era of New Racism (A) Towards a Shared Race-Conscious Discourse and Framework (B) Abduction Language (C)Race-blind U.S. Adoption Policy as Possessive Investment (D) The Hague: Race-sensitive Understanding or Multicultural Fantasy? (E) New Versions of Family to Resist the New Racism (F) Disquieting Adoption References.

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